Turpentine-box.



No. 757,294. PATENTED APR. 12, 1904...

R. L. GAYLORD.

TURPENTINE BOX.

7 APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29, 1903.

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UNITED STATES ROBERT L. GAYLORD,

Patented April 12, 1904.

or CLYO, GEORGIA.

TURPENTlNE-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,294, dated. April 12, 1904.

Application filed August 29, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT L. GAYLoRD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clyo, in the county of Effingham and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Turpentine-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in turpentine-boxes; and it is more especially an improvement over the device described and claimed in Patent No. 730,7 59, granted to me on May 21, 1903. Its object is to provide a turpentine-box of simple and inexpensive construction which may be readily applied to a tree and which is formed of a single rectangular sheet of metal so folded as to form a jointless receptacle from which the turpentine is prevented from leaking.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the turpentine-box. Fig. 2 is a vertical section therethrough, and Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which the turpentine-box is formed and showing in dotted lines the places at which the blank is folded inthe formation of the box.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, lis an oblong blank of sheet metal adapted to be folded transversely upon the line 2, and the lower corners of this folded .portion of the blank are bent upon the diag- .concavo-convex surface which forms one wall of a pocket 8, the other wall of said pocket Serial No. 171,277. (No model.)

prevent the fold 7 from spreading. Apertures 10 are also provided adjacent the bend 9 for the reception of nails or other similar.

securing means, whereby the box may be fastened to the trunk of a tree. I have shown the lines upon which the fold 7 is made by the dotted lines 11 in Fig. 3 and the fold 9 by the line 12 in said figure. The retaining-fold 5 is produced by bending the blank upon the line 13, Fig. 3.

In using the box herein described a straight saw-cut is made within one side of the trunk below the scarified portion thereof, and the bent end 9 of the blank is inserted into the cut and the box held in position by driving nails through the apertures 10 and into the tree. into the pocket 8, from which it can be readily dipped. By forming the box from a rectangular blank there is no waste of metal in the formation of said blank. Moreover, the box produced is extremely simple and durable, and the blank can be readily folded in the formation thereof.

In the foregoing description I have shown the preferred form of my invention; but I do The sap from the 'tree will then pour then bending the ends of said folded portion In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in diagonally to form anguar flapsfl, a retaining; presence of two Witnesses. strip integral With one e ge of t e poo et an v overlapping the angular flaps, and a bent por- ROBERT GAYLORD' 5 tion to the blank extending from the pocket Witnesses:

and folded longitudinally upon itself to pro- C. B. MORGAN, duce a concavo-convex surface. H. H. WILSON. 

